Panama Canal Zone

All questions deal with the Canal Zone from construction days until its transfer to Panama after the 1978 treaties. All place names are described as they were at that time. The very complex nature of U.S.-Panamanian relations is a very different subject. This is simply a "stroll down memory lane" for any jetpunkers out there who may have lived in the zone.

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	Hint	Answer
A	Neighborhood adjacent to Panama CIty; site of Gorgas Hospital	Ancon
B	Largest Canal Zone town; site of canal administrative offices and the public high school	Balboa
C	This 8-mile stretch of canal, slicing through the Continental Divide, presented the greatest challenges and danger to the workers during construction.	Culebra Cut
D	Arguably the most important division of canal maintenance, headquartered in Gamboa	dredging division
E	Town on the canal where many machine shops were located which disappeared virtually overnight when the canal was competed and the area was flooded.	Empire
F	Small but highly venomous snake which Zone residents were warned to avoid	fer-de-lance
G	Chief engineer of the Panama Canal	Goethals
H	Large U.S. Air Force base on the Pacific side, active from 1962-1999	Howard AFB
I	Large colorful reptile that sometimes sheltered in Zone residents' trees	iguana
J	Song popular with some canal employees during the treaty negotiations: "Take This_________and Shove It"	Job
K	Citizens of the San Blas Islands who came into Zone on weekends to sell their beautiful 'molas'	Kuna
L	President of Panama who attended Canal Zone College and graduated from a Texas college	Demetrio Lakas
M	Name of first set of locks on Pacific side of canal	Miraflores

	Hint	Answer
N	Dictator of Panama who took over after Torrijos' death in a plane crash	Noriega
O	Name of U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989	Operation Just Cause
P	The only lock chamber with only one "step'	Pedro Miquel
Q	In March, 1975, this enormous cruise ship squeezed through the locks with barely a foot of clearance	QE2
R	President of the U.S. when canal was built	Teddy Roosevelt
S	Small park/zoo/botanical garden located near Gamboa	Summit Gardens
T	Original name of the Bridge of the Americas that crosses over the Pacific entrance to the canal	Thatcher Ferry Bridge
U	Name of U.S. Navy ship that took two months to travel from the west coast to Cuba to aid in 1898 war, emphasizing the need for a passage between the oceans	U.S.S. Oregon
V	Nocturnal creature frequently seen in Zone- less scary than its name or appearance suggests	vampire bat
W	Citizens from this Caribbean area were brought over to work on canal construction. Their treatment, and the conditions under which they had to travel, work, and live present a very dark chapter in Canal Zone history.	West Indies
Y	Disease that ravaged early canal workers until its cause was determined and eradicated	yellow fever
Z	Nickname given to Canal Zone residents	zonians

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